Why do we paint miniatures?
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- Опубліковано 31 бер 2024
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Painting doesn't always go to plan, this video is the story of me painting an Cities of Sigmar Freeguild Marshal.
I made some pretty basic errors here, realising them far too late, having nearly abandoned the project it turned out to be one of my favourites of the year!
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Music: Bensounds
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How did you find the new format, any suggestions?
I thought it worked well for this vdieo as it was more demonstration oriented - bringing together a lot of things you've done in previous videos. I think it would work less well for a tutorial style video.
why did you leave the left plate ornament on the guy, behind the shield ''unpainted' ...wouldnt that be gold as well?
The mini turned out great but I didn't like the music only format at all. You have a lovely voice so flaunt it darling :D
Hi Byron , could you give some advice please.
A few months ago I was looking for a new brush set as my series 7s were on the way out, so I looked into Artis Opus.
I decided I'd buy just a series S No1 and soap first to see if I get on with the brushes, then the S set and later the M.
When I got the brush it looked beautiful, felt really nice to hold , so quickly gave it a test. I dipped it in water , put a small amount of paint on the brush from my wet pallet and went to apply the paint. Before the brush got to the mini the hair split in two so I washed the paint out , put it into a point and retried but had same issues. I ended up cleaning the brush in the soap and giving it another go the next day with same consequences but now it splayed into several sections. Iv never had this happen with any kolinsky brushes untill they're warn out and feel like the brush didn't even give me a chance to see if I get on with it.
Iv resorted to using the brush mainly to mix paint on my pallet ,which makes me so sad.
Iv been thinking of buying another series S no 1 to give it another go and wanted to know what it was I did wrong .
Thanks
John.
This was a really helpful video format to watch, relax, and see how your process works. I enjoyed watching how you worked past issues and mistakes. If you do it again, a miniature using much more drybrushing would be edifying to see!
Thank you so much. Theres so much "draw the rest of the owl" in mini painting content, creators never showing off their mistakes, skipping most of the process and just slapping "blend/edge highlight" in videos labeled as easy or beginner friendly.
Beginners need to see that mistakes happen at every level of skill or theyre gonna get discouraged when they fail to reach the perfection that everyone presents
I like the format although I would enjoy it more I think with some dialog. Maybe things such as insight into what you might have been thinking with your choice of direction. While I find your videos VERY useful I really would like to understand your thought process on your decisions.
Keep up the great work!
This is probably what we will give a go next time we do something of this nature, thanks very much for the feedback 👌
Relative noob, so I always enjoy instructional vids, but since I have hearing aids, the music versus discussion is highly appreciated. Also, the text descriptions are very helpful. In the future if you change paints, please include a small description of the paint and brush used. Duncan Rhodes does this well, but with his rapid fire discussion, I find it hard to concentrate on the actual painting skill versus listening (or trying to listen lol). I use Artis Opus brushes and am glad they continue to support my patronage with these excellent videos. My heartfelt compliments.
This is a wonderful comment, and very useful for us, thanks so much, dude!
Whatever direction we go in with the audio, we'll be retaining + upping on-screen info, thanks for your support! :)
Great video Byron, I think it's really good that we see what doesn't always go to plan rather than a here's the start and then a great finished miniature. It was refreshing to see a project that evolved from not so good to making it great. Thank you for sharing this with us. 👍👏
Thanks to share you painting process, including mistakes. Very inspiring. I would prefer with a voice-over though, because I usually listen to your videos while painting, instead of just sitting in front of the screen.
I prefer the verbal format. As a less confident, still newish painter, I found your other videos included small insights and descriptions into what you're doing and why. However, I like the longer videos you do compared to other channels, where you demonstrate each layer and placement.
Thanks! We're experimenting until we find the right format for this type of... format. Perhaps a mix of music and audio
Love your work AO, you guys are great. I'm still very new to the hobby, but the way you emphasize your decisions and work through your mistakes is incredibly encouraging. Every technique in your toolbox feels like one I can pick up if I put in the time, and your results are always phenomenal to see. I think these text-only videos are a good 'intermediate' offering, while your more tutorialized videos definitely benefit more from the direct voice over and 'classroom' like effect of you narrating your way through what you're doing.
I think that while 'ye olde' captions might be a liiiittle bit jarring with your more synthy/meditative tunes, there's definitely a place 'between beats' in your videos where you can give the viewer a chance to take a breath (if they're watching) or to look up because the sound suddenly cut off, to get an idea of whether the thing you're doing next is something they want to focus-in on (if they're co-painting?) but that.... isn't necessarily how the anatomy of a project goes? So much of the appeal of what you do with these time-lapsed videos is the constant flow of layer upon layer, progress constantly being made, so I guess it might be a narrow line to thread the needle.
In any case I'm subscribed and watching, your work is great and the support you are providing us is incredible! Thanks for all you do!
Thank you for showing us how to get over error's or the ugly stage! Only things I think would help would be an audio queue or quick voice over when then let the text take over on how you worked around / resolved the issue.
This video is extremely useful
Not simply "useful"
Nice to see full process like this
The nice part of this for me is that you showed that you don't have to strip the model and start again. As long as you haven't caked the mini in thick paint you should be ok to fix it.
I’ve been trying to follow along with your techniques for a few of my recent models, to various levels of success….
But I do have a request/suggestion; I primarily paint my minis for DnD/ board games, so all my models come pre-assembled (maybe 1 piece off if it’s a larger model)…. Could you demonstrate how you’d incorporate your drybrush techniques (or really any techniques that aren’t “shove your brush in and hope it comes out) on a model that you cannot get clear access to some of the undersides? (In particular, I’m currently working on a demon with his wings wrapped around his body, but far enough that you can see, but not get in to control)
This... so much this..
I do like seeing painters mix the paint and actually apply it - so the "fast forwardy" sections were interesting. I think the format might work - but it could have done with being 10 mins shorter and the point where the painting went off the rails for you made a bit clearer. Even after watching it i wasn't 100% sure. Even at its "worst" it was still better than what i can achieve!
Great feedback, thanks dude :). I think we already pin-pointed the middle-ish section where we could have cut more aggressively, perhaps you can let us know how we did when we next drop a similar video!
Cheers man, it's always just about doing them best job we can with the time given, same as it is for all of us!
Wow, I rarely watch any lengthy video. Good to see how you work through "lightening up" a broad area. The music was a bit louder than it needed to be but overall a very good production.
Mother highlighter is my new fave swearword.
E.G. Go highlight yourself, motherhighlighter.
Anywho..... Love the music and text format, more please.👍👍
Not the video i expected when i saw Artis Opus and 1st April. One thick coat is still the funniest thing ive seen in a painting video so not sure that can be topped.
dude your voice is so relaxing to listen to, builds confidence in my mini painting every time I drop by the channel :D
Thank you Byron!
Great video, I do live the blow by blow commentary. But, this was a nice chilled video and still got the message across.
Both formats work, love to watch the work! 😁👌
Showing mistakes is THE most important thing to show. Every other channel is about golden demons, painting titans, an army in a day, etc etc. not that helpful. This is sitting next to a pro and taking notes. Thank you. Great work as always.
Amazing work!
Love the format
I hope you are not ruining those lovely organic brushes with Metallics!
BTW add some glass balls to your gw pots, can often see the paints separating when you open, so they need a better shake 😂
Great video! Loved seeing the journey of this one
Looks great as always.
Love this video. I think a lot of people, especially newer painters think that good painters don't have to deal with these exact issues. We all deal with them at every level I think.
This is a really un-glamorous thing for a content creator to cover, so I'm glad to see someone showing that sometimes you have to sort of work through your own mistakes.
Thanks for showcasing dry brushing techniques and being so damn humble. You're a BOSS! 👊😎👍
Loved it, a great format to watch and another awesome mini. 👏
great video as ever, I'd love to see how you'd do something at a bigger scale, especially if there are 3d printing layer lines you're avoiding showing up. I've struggled a bit to transfer some of the techniques to that situation
this is one of the most helpful painting vids I've seen
thank you so much! sometimes I make mistakes so dumb, I could slap myself. It is nice to see that i`m not alone here and that we have the luxury to deal with an additive artform - we can always add a new layer/glaze and voila! :)
I honestly liked the cloak more when it was darker. 😅 Also one doesn't see threads at this scale for real so I am not convinced the high effort crosshatching adds a lot. I would like to hear you talk about why you're making the creative / subjective decisions you are making and spend less time on showing the technicalities of execution. ❤
I've got that box of skulls too!
Спасибо!
Hey Byron , great vid as always, but I did miss the narration 😢 , not that it wasn’t good but you described your technique really well . I like how show your mistakes, I would have prob stripped the mini 😂, because I get really disappointed when my painting doesn’t turn out the way I want , so to see you bring it back was good … not that it was ‘bad’ anyway 🤷🏻♀️. Would like to video on doing cloth , I’ve looked back on your other vids , but can’t find one . I’ve been watching your channel from the beginning but can’t remember there being one .
Will you be doing a tutorial on drybrushing/stippling orange armor?
thanks for a great video, I really like the fact that it shows "the real world" of painting, and working through your mistakes, and for a relatively new painter it encourages me to push on with the process and not just feel I'm the only one lol. my only feedback is I personally like a bit more audio commentary, as I tend to watch while I'm hobbying and keep missing the written commentary. thanks again
In general I enjoyed the video. The biggest issue I had was the music during the painting parts. It was loud enough and active enough to distract me at times from concentrating on the painting. I really had to stretch things to even mention this aspect. Overall, enjoyable video.
I really enjoyed this video. It isn't often that a content creator takes us through the "mistakes" part of their miniature journey, which I found very helpful and encouraging. Do you re-prime or re-blacken your texture palette before each new project? Would appreciate more of these kinds of videos in future if they aren't too difficult or time consuming to produce.
I thought it was interesting progress painting the shield and cloak of the Freeguild Marshal, the details in applying the weather, fabric and heraldry symbol was eye watching throughout the video.
Very neat different approach, glad you got to do something different. What guided your decision to make this a pure display vs playable model? Do you intend to do one for an army? How would it be different in approach and final result?
Mentions mistakes. "name here". 😅 I really liked thr contrast between the bright mini and the rather cold base. Really worked well.
I have a very large Space Wolf army, still on the sprue, along with Dark Eldar and too a slightly smaller degree Ork armies. Would love to see a general guide to shall we say, a faster painting technic for the table top. I love the space wolf grey/blue look with a little snow & ice on the base, black & purples for the dark eldar and red & black for the orks, cos as we all know red is the fastestist colour!
I really like the finished miniature! I don't know if the cloak was per se too dark, it could have been a less highlighted part of the model (serving as a frame for the parts you'd want to capture the viewer's attention more - e.g. the face, or the shield). Also, I relate to the gardening phase, having recently spent way too long on my Ionus' base try to balance out small tufts, big tufts, bright blossoms, dark grass, skulls, etc... I do have a question though: how long did it take you to finish the painting on this mini?
God this was satisfying to watch. Thirty minutes of my day just went poof.
Did this just now. Painting a flesh of gods devil and it looked flat red, there's some highlights here and there but overall looked flat. Kept going and its looking great... Was going to carry on to his wings but i looked at the time and oh look. Its 2am lol. Currently 2:12am...
Really liked the format of this video, not to say I take issue with your regular narrating so I wouldn't have you switching over completely :)
How is this for a suggestion though? I feel like painting eyes in miniature painting is far from solved science. In traditional art you would rarely go beyond a shadow cast from the browline in the eye region unless you are doing a portrait or otherwise have a close-up of a person in your composition. Considering the scale we are working at with these miniatures, I don't feel like it warrants clearly defined eye whites and pupils. I don't have any clear answers myself, I don't think a pool of nuln oil in the eye socket of a character would do for something like this but the white dot with a smaller black dot has never sat right with me either. Maybe some sort of exploration could be done to figure out an efficient way of tackling this, but I feel like I am rambling as I have been thinking about this alot lately.
Up until the wash stage and a bit after , lets say first hightlight, i dont unsterstand the WHY its a mistake??
His mistake miniatures always look amazing.
I think this video would've been more helpful with commentary.
Agreed
Agreed, I prefer voice-over commentaries too.
Definitely. Even with the mistakes
Hey I have a question about your board, the one you put paint on. I'm guessing it is similar to the ones you sell on the website. How do you "reset" the board after its full of colors? do you prime it again? paint it black?
Great question :). Wipe dust off with a damp cloth if needed, but I do enjoy a chaos Black spray reset for a 'fresh start' :)
@@ArtisOpus Great thanks!
Something I've been pondering recently. I hadn't done much painting for about 9 months (no interesting reasons) and was a struggling a bit with being satisfied with what I was painting. Some of it is objectively mistakes - lots of dex fails before my hands remembered how to paint. A lot of it is just not quite hitting a standard I was expecting/hoping. However, the next day, or a couple of days later, I'm much happier with what I've done. Partly that's trusting a process, which is a huge part of mini painting and partly because one (or at least I) stops judging something by its failures, but rather by its successes.
When painting, I think its natural to be drawn to what goes wrong during the process, but when finished, unless being criitically judged, it is instead measured by its overally finish. Other people don't care if its the slighly wrong shade of blue or if that dusty weathering was really intended to look damp.
Also, a mistake makes something sound binary, when most of painting is more analog.
What I'm really trying to say is, the old quote "an artist has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away," attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupery, is wrong because they hadn't yet invented glue on tufts.
Prefer the voice over silent movie tbh.
Honestly, I’m not a fan of this format. I tend to engage your videos whilst doing something else, so with the lack of verbal cues I’m missing many relevant steps. The miniature was well painted as always, and I picked up some valuable reminders about hiding mistakes with shades paints, however a lot of the time I was just hearing the ambient music and forgetting to watch for the written prompts.
Maybe you could record a separate commentary track after the edit, just to say what you had in the text, it doesn’t need to be conversational.
In terms of the mini, loved the texture on the cloak and the look of the shield.
The joke is it's not a drybrush video !
Great work with the transfer.
In tems of like to see?
Old World stuff. Especially the Maruader giant or some of the other classic giants that were brought back into publication.
I fear my ADHD doesn't allow me to watch intently enoguh to grab the gist of the work. Sorry, I guess I personally need more narration.
All good, we probably are going to try something like narration (not instructional) over the top next time :)
@@ArtisOpusreally do enjoy that you are playing with the format to see how other approaches feel. It's great to experience experimentation.
The content is just fine, but actual running commentary feels "needed". Both in the way that you can explain stuff more when it is happening/ehy you do specific stuff. And it makes it a lot better as a video to have running in the background while doing something else. It now requires full attention, instead of listening along a potentially putting a piece that peaked the interest enough to give full attention.
I think the biggest mistake was the muscle shirt at the end. Definite no no!
Nothing to do with the paintjob but more with the sculpt. Am i the only one that thinks this general dude looks like they took a random hobo of the streets and put him in fancy armor?
Seriously, what's wrong with his hair?
I like that though. People who are well off don't join the "you are likely gonna die in battle but we'll give you warm food and clothes until then".
It was a useful video, but I really think it's lacking without your voice over. You've always got a lot of good stuff to say and it feels kind of lonely with no voice over.
Okay?